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The Carroll Forum
Catholic University of America
The Carroll Forum is aimed at helping to cultivate the skills, virtues, and convictions needed for a republic to flourish. Politics is dysfunctional today. Too many citizens enter the public arena unprepared to speak persuasively, participate in debates with magnanimity and goodwill, and to understand where others might get their very different opinions and convictions. It makes for a worse republic and makes a functional politics almost impossible. We can do something about this by training students in the same way that formerly produced men and women of conviction and goodwill: by reading classic works of philosophy and literature, learning the skills to speak persuasively and think creatively, and to cultivate sufficient virtue so that they may pursue the common good in concert with their fellow citizens in the spirit of public service.